As urgent care grows, the new twist is specialty clinics, franchises

CAL/AAEM News Service calaaem.news.service at gmail.com
Sat May 21 22:56:11 PDT 2016


Description: Description: Description: Description: CAL/AAEM: California
Chapter of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine

 

May 2, 2016

 

As urgent care grows, the new twist is specialty clinics, franchises

 

Fierce Practice Management
<http://www.fiercepracticemanagement.com/story/urgent-care-grows-new-twist-s
pecialty-clinics-franchises/2016-05-02?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mkt
_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRnellURTNOamt5WmpBeCIsInQiOiJcL1NsdXhGTXhGU29QU2M5UFJqUFZUK1h
lTHAyb0VFNzJYdkJldlorR1dReExDbG9rM0pXQnVDdHRSeGZmU05TaWhcL2lKQW56T1hzdndlb2R
IcTVGb1d5YTcwTHNEUlpkOUduY2xHaFN6OXhvPSJ9> 

 

By Joanne Finnegan

 

As it grows, urgent care is evolving with the latest twists involving
specialty clinics, franchises, and hospitals and health insurance companies
getting into the action, according to an article in the Orlando Sentinel.

 

The majority of urgent care clinics provide primary care and pediatric
services, but now a growing number are providing special care in areas such
as orthopedics and cardiology, the report said.

 

That's the case for Alejandro Badia, M.D., a hand surgeon, who started an
orthopedic urgent care center called OrthoNOW in 2010 in Miami-Dade County
in Florida after he found patients had sought care elsewhere before coming
to his practice. He wanted patients to be able to reach him more directly.

 

Now Badia has turned OrthoNOW into a franchise. He has sold 10 franchises so
far, with most of the owners not doctors but people capitalizing on this
growing healthcare delivery option. "Our mission is to change the way expert
orthopedic healthcare is delivered. It's a simple mission. Like Uber. It's a
simple concept," said Badia, a practicing hand surgeon.

 

There are more than 7,000 urgent care centers in the U.S., with the sector
expected to grow 4 percent to 6 percent a year in the next several years,
the report said.

 

OrthoNOW plans to double in size every year for the next five years. The
cost of a franchise is between $450,000 and $850,000, with most care
provided by orthopedic physician assistants who work under the supervision
of a physician, the article said.

 

Another change in urgent care, is that the centers were at first mostly
independently owned. However, with the shift to outpatient care, more
hospitals and health insurance companies are opening urgent care clinics,
the report said. More patients are seeking treatment at urgent care centers
because of convenience and time savings.

 

 

Jeff Wells
Deputy Editor, CAL/AAEM News Service

 

Brian Potts MD, MBA
Managing Editor, CAL/AAEM News Service



Contact us at: calaaem.news.service1 at gmail.com

For more articles, visit our  <http://www.calaaem.org/news_archives.php>
archives. 

 <mailto:somcaaem at uci.edu> To
<https://maillists.uci.edu/mailman/listinfo/calaaem>  unsubscribe from this
list, visit our mail server.

Copyright (C) 2015. The California Chapter of the American Academy of
Emergency Medicine (CAL/AAEM). http://www.calaaem.org. All rights reserved.

CAL/AAEM, a nonprofit professional organization for emergency physicians,
operates the CAL/AAEM News Service solely as an educational resource for
physicians. Dissemination of an article by CAL/AAEM News Service does not
imply endorsement, agreement, or recommendation by CAL/AAEM News Service,
CAL/AAEM, or AAEM.



Follow CAL/AAEM on Facebook and Twitter:

 

 <http://www.facebook.com/pages/CalAAEM/172577489479442?sk=wall&filter=12>
<https://twitter.com/#!/CALAAEM>
<http://escholarship.org/uc/uciem_westjem> 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://maillists.uci.edu/pipermail/calaaem/attachments/20160521/891cb4e4/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image009.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 20163 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://maillists.uci.edu/pipermail/calaaem/attachments/20160521/891cb4e4/attachment-0004.jpg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image010.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 947 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://maillists.uci.edu/pipermail/calaaem/attachments/20160521/891cb4e4/attachment-0005.jpg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image011.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 889 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://maillists.uci.edu/pipermail/calaaem/attachments/20160521/891cb4e4/attachment-0006.jpg>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image012.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 2277 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://maillists.uci.edu/pipermail/calaaem/attachments/20160521/891cb4e4/attachment-0007.jpg>


More information about the CALAAEM mailing list